On the Recommendation of the Navy Board, it is Ordered that a Commission issue appointing Robert Blaws second Lieutenant of the Manley Galley in the Room of George Chamberlaine who is appointed second Lieutenant of the Brigantine Musquetto.

Whereas by the present Regulations of the Navy of this Commonwealth two thirds of every Capture, if a merchant man are to belong to the State, and the other third part to the Captors, but if a ship of War, Tender, or Privateer, one half to the State, the other half to the Captors which at the time of that establishment corresponded with the Continental Regulation And whereas the Congress have since directed that of all future Captures, the United States should have only a Moiety, and the Captors the other Moiety in case of merchantmen, and that the Captors shoud have the whole where the Prize is a Ship of War, Tender, or Privateer,² and it being necessary that there should be an uniformity in the Rules prescribed for the Distribution of Prizes'. Resolved therefore that the last recited Regulation of Congress between the Captors and the united States shall hereafter be in force between the Captors & this State.